I am curious to know how other people actually get it down, as in write.
For me it’s a strange process and maybe bad I don’t know, as it’s the only way I can. The thoughts spill out of my head and I have to type them down at top speed. I pay no attention to spelling, grammar or punctuation. Just concentrate on getting the idea out of my head – it’s almost if I am talking to myself in a steady flow and I can hardly keep up.
Then after about a thousand words or so, I go back and read over what I have created. It’s an unintelligible scrawl of thoughts and ideas interspersed with dialogue. The next part I really like, slowly sorting out the mass of jumbled words arranging them in order, adding the details, the descriptions the slow polish, like moulding a lump of clay into a recognisable shape.
I have tried to start off slowly and carefully and I simply can’t work that way.
I’d love to hear your thoughts on how you write?
I'm pretty much the opposite.
I can't leave a typo or missed punctuation, so I write quite slowly. But I write a fairly detailed outline to begin with so I know where I'm going, even if it does alter during the writing. On a roll I can reel off pages and pages, but other times I can write nothing because what I can visualise in my head won't go down on paper the same way.
Who'd wish it on a dog, eh? ;)